The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 8, 1898, Page 4

4 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, APRIL 1898 ———— JOBBERS’ SCHEMES BEXPOSED Grosvenor Tells of the Bold Plot Cuban to Bolster Bonds. Representative Lentz of Ohio Charges the President With Standing in With Wall Street and Is Rebuked. Call Offic>. Riggs House, Washington, April 7. | There was a scene of great excite- | ment in the House late this afternoon during the conslderation of the bill for the reorganizatién of the army. It was caused by Lentz, an Ohio Democrat, who made a v us assault on the ad- ministration, charging that the policy of delay was in the interest of stock jobbers in Wall street. He alleged that ‘Wall street was in the possession of Information that the message would not £o in long before it was known at the Capitol and profited heavily by the ad- vance in the price of stocks which re- sulted. He even charged that there was no w t for the alarming state- ments about the situation in Havana which were give justifying the de- Lentz's speech ation and was lay of the message. created a profound s met with an emphatic reply from Gen- eral Grosvenor, now regarded as the administration spokesman on the floor. Grosvenor not only indignantly denied there was justification for the report, but held Lentz up to scorn for alleging corrupt motives against the President. Lentz disclaimed this, but the irate friend of the President gave him no mercy. He was thoroughly aroused and laid about him with a veritable blud- geon, charging that the Democrats | were king political advantage and paying his respects to Joha J. McCook and other: ¥ he concluded he ex- the of n that war was as that we would live until unless it was averted by The debate on the army bill developed more and more op- Hull tried to save the bill by agreeing to strike out all its provisions, even the three battalion formation fea- tures, but it was in the end recom- mitted—150 to 61. Little evidence of excitement existed when the House met at noon he public were crowded, but yawning gaps showed in the reserved department. Hull, chairman of the Military Affairs Committee, stated before the consider tion of the army reorganization bill was resumed, that, at the proper time, he 1uld move to strike out ything ex- t two sections, providing for ttalion formation. The tion providing for the expansion of the r army In time of war to 104,000 d be stricken out Sulzer (D.) of New ork, who supported the bill a pre d to modify it, a r 1f Cu- an independence were recognized, he de- Cuba would be soon free. He de- that the mujority In Congress and sident little understood the in- | feeling among the people of tha try over the Maine affair and tho | in calling Spain to ac “*Oh for one day of Andrew Jackson in the White House,” he concluded. ‘‘He would say, ‘Onward the fleet, forward the whole line, and let the battle cry be uba must be free 3 (D.) of V the bill. ashington vigorously | He not only charged a programme to in- | regular army in time of peace, clared that the thr formation had proved a failure been so characterized by the commande; in-chief of the British arm Ohio, in the course of his tion to the bil uld be no wa which was speculat- | s and bonds, would prevail. | was an irreconcilable dis- n the reasons given for the President Ha He said ther arity betwe clay of th Bispatches from : had been postponed because Americans | rould not get a e message | out of Havana, vet the | ress aiches said all was’ quiet in | iavana, and that General Lee saidhehad | not been recalled. He denounced the tel- | pgrams other members were receiving | prging them to stand by the President ynd sald they were dictated by financial preed. | Lentz referred to the note presented by | the powers. He read from it the words | wbout the hope for peace in the settle- ent of the existing differences with | pain. “We have no differences with Spain,” he cried. “We have 266 assassinated Americans which Spain account lor.” (Applause in the Yesterday,” Lentz 5 ve had this nouse filled, the galleries overflowed and | the Capitol grounds were covered with | people, all expecting the President's mes- bage, which might lead to war. But Anally, in the afternoon, came word that 2 message had been recefved from Con- Ful-General Lee Havana indicating that and_the m ] ADVERTISEMENTS. Pears’ People have no idea how crude and cruel soap can be. It takes off dirt. So far, so good; but what else does it do? It cuts the skin and frets the under-skin; makes red- ness and roughness and leads to worse. Not soap, but the alkali in it. Pears’ Soap has no free al- kali in it. It neither reddens nor roughens the skin. It re- sponds to water instantly ; washes and rinses off in a twinkling; is as gentle as strong; and the after-effect is every way good. All sorts of stores sell it, especially was delayed on that account. Now, I don’t be ve anybody had authority for the statement from the administration or any other official that justified the rumor that prevailed here yesterday. The tele- gram by the Associated Press yesterday stated that all was quiet in Havana, and General Lee told a correspondent that he 1 not been requested to leave. Other rs have similar dispatches. tements are true there nothing to j the Capitol be no war.” Continuing, he charged that Congre: being overwhelmed by tele; m “initiated by commercial greed,” all of which_he declared emanated principally from Wail street. “It iIs the old question of the almighty dollar,” said he. “It is tne fall of stocks the gentlemen who control the admini tration fear more than war. The nothing for the 2 assassinated who went dow: na ..arbo they care ev hing for %9 cents plus one cent. S: my friends, that.we owe an apology to Judas Iscarfot. I say he ought If Judas ge he would not have gone 's field and hanged himself. would have been sent to the United es Senate in due time, such a spec r as he was.’" [Laughter and ap- plause on the Democratic side.] t3 proceeded 1o read from a k paper statements to the effect that ay in sending the message helped stock nd that they had had advance He read from the various to snow that stocks went 2 the line when the news was the me ge would not go to Congress vesterday He referred to the note of the powers to the Government and its respons sterday. I say there will to be brought back and deified. hived In this to the pot He brought Grosvenor of min- egaraed as the ad , in the course of > startling statements, which *at sensation in the House. n from Ohlo (Lentz)” predicated a long spe: here upon a statement of facts made b, himself. He_ declares that no came from General Lee it was a fake report; that it wa: given out for a corrupt purpose by Pr. e th particle of this statement is, without ification, absolutely fal; ( e on the Republican side.) I call upon the tinguished gentleman from Kentucky erry), a member of the Koreign Af- fairs Committee, to say whether 1 tell the truth or not when I say that such a dis. tch was received from General Lee and read by him. There is the answer. the char that are being made on American honor and the integri Not only did the dispatch come yes terday, but it came the day before, and appealed to the President of the United States. 1 read‘the telegram, and there are twenty men on this floor now who read the telegram, both Democrats and Republicans. It was read to the distin- guished members of the Foreign Rela: tions Committee of the Senate, and ea and every one of them, without qualifi- tion, coincided with the poli of the President not to send the message in here at that time. 1 say again that only a most earnest and urgent protest came from General Lee. Is General Lee at one of the tickers? (Laughter on the Repub- lican side.) Some rupt motives to other men; how they ever became educated to the idea that all men are corrupt, I leave to your imagination.” Lentz—If yvou knew this day before yes- % hy did you let the House and s fill up with people and sit here nothing about it while Wall °t was speculating on it? Grovesnor—Wall street was not spec- ulating on it. That story was as false as the other. I say that the President intended to disregard Lee's message of | ay and had his message signed and | Tues sealed, ‘and ready to be transmitted to both Houses, and yesterday morning, when the final protest in the name of humanity came, as I have said, it was read before the committees of the two Houses and without a dissenting voice they advised the President against send- ing it here. proposition. He has made statement here. He made a statement that the representatives of the great powers In this city have to-day called on the President and asked him to delay. 1 stated that that was false. I believe the statement here in my hand, and there is not one word said about the delay. What the gentleman did not read is the re- sponse in which he put an end, without qualification, to all suggestions of delay or interference in any way whatever. a garbled | Now, the gentleman is arraigning the President of the United States: he is sending a message to the enemy, show- ing them that here in the midst of this House is a man who will charge the President of the United States with a corrupt purpose, with a corrunt inten- tion, with attempting to stop the progress of the great march of patriotism. There is no word of delay in all the language which has been used in this connection.” After a prolonged wrangle over the question of an extension of time, Grosve- nor proceeded: “‘I call the attention of the gentleman and of the House,” he continued, ‘‘to the statement he made that this was an- other = stock-jobbing performance, and that there was another purpose of delay in this declaration from the embassadors of the great powers, so that Wall street would run upward. the statement that immediately upon the publication of the statement in the city of New York the market became very weak and ran clear down upon every one of the leading articles in the market. See how easy it Is to make a charge. Now let me tell the gentleman something ahout bonds. It is very easy to charge a Sen- ator. That Senator "(meaning Hanna) has made a statement, which I challenge any man to deny, that never in his life, not only not this year, but never in his life, did he buy a dollar of stock in Wall street or anywhere else,’” l;\lc%flllln—gzl\?l‘hn ]fl:\y the same thing about votes? aughter and a; the Democratic sida.) PRIALocton Lentz—I mentioned no State on the floor of this House. His name was mentioned in one of the articles I read. Gl('?s\'pnnr—E\i‘flr_vhnd_v knew—does the gentleman say he did not jn: out Mark Hanna? iBionditorpalng Lentz—How could everybody know? Grosvenor—Did you intend it to mean Mark Hanna? Be brave now. Answer lhIm. ‘nlq"\l'nu me‘n':) Mark Hanna? Lentz—\What makes you thi Mark llannn?y (Laughter.) S omeeg rosvenor—You mentioned Mark and the record wil whow it. s entz—I will charge you with - sponsibility of accusing M phote Ir. H 5 have not. whrh ual. Senator from any I described a certain lndlvldE Grosvenor—Oh, but the gentleman diq use the name, I have been baiting hi say that. pirzzd Lentz—I deny it. Grosvenor—Well, there {s the Now, Mr. Speaker, let us see how this situation stands. This gentleman is record. druggists; all sorts of people use it. &reatly worried about bonds, ¢ the statement sent to | New | , | ger its ident to affect the stock market. Ev- | er of the sort of as-| v of the President. | men can ascribe cor- | Now let me answer another | I hold in my hand | and he read | the name of John J. McCook In one of his ralds this afternoon. Who is John J. Mc- Cook? Whom does he represent? What 18 he here for? How do he and the gen- tleman from Ohio stand with reference to this? I will show you that they are| parties in a great conspiracy, one wn-% tingly so, the other, I trust, lgnmjam‘ly‘ s0. Who is John J. McCook? He is the | legal representative of the Cuban Junta of New York, behind which stands $0.- 000,000, more or less, of bonds that can | be validated by the recognition of the in- dependence of Cuba by the United States | and they will be destroyed by a policy | that drives Spain out of Cuba in the 1n-’ terest of American people. (Appiause.) | Lentz—Was it not announced that this same J. J. McCook was to be a member | of the President’'s Cabinet? Grosvenor—I have heard the gentleman | and myself were each and both of us to | be Governor of the State of Ohio, but we never got there, [Laughter.] I will tell you who John J. McCook He repre- Sents an interest running up into the hundreds of millions of douars, and if he | could get the United States to make a recognition of the independence of Cuba and then fight to establish it by the United States, at a cost of a thousand | million doliars, the holders of these bogus bonds will realize $400,000,000 and collect | the money. That is where the bonds come in. Let us take the other side. I was| told some time ago—just before the time that this trouble broke out—I was told that a party in the city of New York sold | short on the market o an extent that if | the condition things were in prior to the breaking out of this Cuban trouble had | prevailed it would have absolutely ruined him, although his estate is a very wealthy one. 1 have been told that from that day | to this any proposition to provoke Spain to war, any motion that would cause war in this country between Spain and the| United States has been promoted by that gentleman, because the moment war is declared the snort side of the markel| will put a million dollars into his pocket. Now, would the gentleman tell us—. [Sev- eral gentlemen on the Democratic side: | *“Who is it?] Grosvenor—Tell us how anybody can be | benefited by preventing war? How? I| mean any stockbroker, anybody who holds any stocks? How can that happen ces are going up or down as each | ngresses and as each shin has to | surrender? Then is the time that stocks | rise and fall. And were I stock gambling, | which I thank God I am not, there would | | be no asion more gratifying to my | greed than war with the United States | and another country. Why is it that ev-| manufacturer of the United States | nts an end put to this war? Becausa | want things to get back again to they were before this agitation be- gan. Why is it that the Treasury of the | United States wants to put an end to this uncertainty? Because the revenues of the | Government are being destroyed by this | excitement and uncertainty. Therefore it s ‘hat the President, backed up by his Cabinet, and backed by the best judgment | of the House,and backed by the best judg- | ment of the Senate, is proceeding as rap- | id.y as possible to put an end to this war, | and vet the gentleman says that the | P nt has faltered. A charge no more | serious than he has preferred has brought | the head cf many a man to the block, a ciharge more infamous than that could not be borne by any man in_this country, to make it appear that the President has used the power that Congress has given | Lin. tc operate the stock markets of thiz country. Prove that and you would have | a vuacurcy in the Presidency just as Guick as you can establish it. The gharges | have no truth. ntz—1 have a.ready said to you that | eny that 1 said anything of the kind. 1 rever said that a telegram had not been | sent. Grosvenor—The administration set the story afloat in the intere: f ulation. Those are your exa the reporter’s notes will sho | & charge that ought to President of the United States to im-| {warhmwm and imprisonment. I, for one, | have felt that it was a terrible assault upon the honor and integrity of Spain | what we did on yesterday, but it must be remembered that there was put up on the one hand the choice of insult to | Spain, solemnly delivered by the Presi- | dent, an intimation to the whole world | that’ there was danger of murder to| | American representatives in Cuba, or there was put on the other side the dan- | If. We can have mere tragedy | along this line until war_comes to put | the whole thing into the hands of trag- | | edy. Now, then, I will say that over | | against the statement of the in- | | sult to Spain that was deliberately hurled | at her by the American people that the | . You made condemn the administration was compelled to put the | chances of murder, not that the Govern- | | ment of Spain would do it, but the Gov. | ernment was so powerless {0 maintain or- | der that the ships of a friendly nation | are unsafe in her ports and might be overwhelmed by mobs and murder have | taken place. Suppose the message would | have gone to Congress yesterday, and | suppose that last night the blood of that | | distinguished and chivalrous gentleman | from Virginia had s the soil of | Cuba? What would have been the ver- | | dict of the American people against the | | administration? If a man in the House, | | so far forgetful “of his dignity as an | | American citizen of the humblest charac- ter, intimates that the President has | been juggling a thing like that, I will not answer for it. Mr. Speaker, I did not suppose that in | this American Congress it was necessary | that I should make an explanation in or- | der tordefend the President of the United | States from an insinuation like that. I am glad the ?ur‘msfl of the opposition is now fully and clearly disclosed. am de- | lighted that because of a little change in | the programme, wholly unimportant | | except as it strengthens the daily aug- | menting powers of the United States—a change made under stress of circum- ances that would have controlled any civilized nation—I am delighted that the | gentleman from Ohio has given us notice that every occurrence now and hereafter |1s to be taken advantage of for party purposes, and I am delighted that the gentleman from Texas (Bailey) has two or three times now, on each succeeding day, pointed out with great delight that here are differences of opinion on the | Republican side of the House. I suggest | to the gentleman that when he opens a recruiting office to get volunteers to pass under_his banner to fight the administra- tion, he had better make a contract for | the Tent of his quarters from day to day, | as he will probably not need them very | long in the future. Here comes a matter which the whole world will say governed the administra- tion as it it ourht to have been governed, and the world will be notified to-night that the President has been assailed by a distinguished representative on this floor, his motives impugned and his integ- rity ‘censured, the whole action charged | as being instigated by criminal purposes, o 000C000C000CO000CCO00CO0OC00 00000000C000000000C o STOCKTON PEOPLE o HISS McKINLEY. STOCKTON, April 7.—An in- cldent which occurred here last evening was the hissing of the picture of President McKinley, displayed during a theatrical performance. On the stage ple- tures of the Preside .t and of several leaders were being dis- played on the background of the national colors. All cheered to the echo till the picture of McKinley was shown, when the gallery started to hiss, and it was taken up downstairs. The affair so angered a number pres- ent that they imrediately left the theater. When it became known around town - any denounced it as an outrage, while others expressed the opinion that i* was the peo- ple’s privilege to criticise. Some Who have entirely disagreed with President McKinley in his attitude in the present difficulty were outspoken in their anger that an audience should be in- cited to manifest such disre- spect. Considerable 1l feeling was awakened by the incident. (] o (] [ ] C0CO000000000000000CO0O0000C00C000 co 00000CCC0000000000 and this is a body that boasts that it is | BOing to stand bv the administration. ~Now, gentlemen, let me tell you an- other thing. This war will be fought under the banner of the Republican ad- ministration of this Government, or it will never be fought at all. We may | differ about how it ought to be inaugu- | rated, and honestly. Some of you may | have an opinion different from mine, | and I honor you for that. But when the | time comes’ the commander-in-chief of | the army of the United States will com- | mand the column that will crush the power of Spain: or it never will be | crushed. Again, you will discover as you | day. New officers were elected, as fol- | unlimited coinage of siver and gold at | BIMETALLIC CLUBS MEET Officers Are Elected and Resolutions Duly Adopted. William J. Bryan and Silver Chairman Towne Are Heard From. George Fred Williams Also Speaks on the Money Question and Creates Enthusiasm. Special Dispatch to The Call. INDIANAPOLIS, April 7.—About 500 persons were present when President Reely called the convention of the League of Bimetallic Clubs to order to- ows: President, J. P. Tarvin of Ken- tucky; vice-presidents—N. R. Tucker of Ohio, F. J. Van Voorhees of Indiana, A. C. Bentley of Illinois. Resolutions presented by Chairman D. E. Morse were adopted. They re- gard the financial question as ‘the paramount issue” and pledge the sup- port of the league to securing free and | the ratio of 16 to 1; unalterably oppose the single gold standard; declare that | Congress alone has power to coin and issue money, and that this power g0 along that the enemy on the other side—the opposition—are putting forward | matters of legal interest—taking a posi- | tlon to-day that it did not take two years | ago. It is not vet two years since it was | proclaimed by ‘the great Democratic law- | yers of the Congress of the United States that there was no power in the .Congress of the United States to rec- Ognize the independence of a foreign | country: labored arguments fllled the | Congressional Record to show that such | recognition was not within the yower of | Congress, but lay exclusively under the constitution in the hands of the Presi- dent. But, however that may be, when war is declared the President of the United States becomes at once vested by | the constitution with the power to con- | clude treaties with foreign countries, and | he is at all times the commander-in-chief | of the armies of the United States. ‘I have no more doubt,” Grosvenor con- cluded, “that we are going to e war than T have that we will live till next week. I may be mistaken. I pray to God | that T may be mistaken. But I believe, | Mr. Speaker, that we will go to war on a | declaration substantially of Congress. My | influence will be give n for peace for what- ever it is worth. My influence will given to avert war, but the time my humble judgment, when we it, and if peace sha from the action of be | up, in! can avert 11 prevail it must come | another country rath- | er than our ow Our position is taken | and we cannot recede. But let the pol- | icy of this Government be such that when the tocsin of war shall have sounded all of the civilized world will say ‘America is right.” " (Great applause.) After Grosvenor concluded his remarks ! Bailey took the floor for a brief speech, in which he quoted several utte ces of Grosvenor to show that the Buckeve statesman had shifted his position. He first quoted from one of Grosvenor's eeches of a week ago, in which he de- clared that the administration would when the time came for action be for in- dependence and armed intervention; two days later he said in an interview, inde- pendence without armed intervention, and now he said armed intervention without independence. Grosvenor caused some merriment on the Democratic side when he said the statements quoted were substantially in the same directjon. Then, turning his attention to some of Grosvenor's remarks, ssailey indignantly repelled the idea that if war came it was to be a Republican war, “It would be a war of the people of the United States against Spanish tyranny in Cuba,” sald he amid great applause. | After some further debate on the bill | Hull’s motion to strike out all but the | first two sections was carrfed. The bill | was then carried—150 to 60, The House then, at 5:50, adjourned till Monday. SHOT AND KILLED THE TOWN TOUGH. Joe Bacher of Santa Monica Defends | Himself by Shooting Daniel B. Gray. | SANTA MONICA, April 7.—Daniel B.| Gray, a well known man about town and | considered a tough man to deal with when | drinking, got on a spree last evening, tried to run the town and attacked a number of people. He entered the Pacific saloon, got into an altercation with Joe Bacher, the proprietor, and attacked him with a heavy cane, swearing to kill him. He cornered Bacher, who drew a pistol and fired five shots, three into the ceil- ing. Gray persisted in his attack, and of the last two shots one went through Gray’s forearm and the other through his rigut lung. He died this afternoon. Bacher gave himself up but was released on a $1000 bond. Bacher is a peaceable citizen. At the Coroner's inquest the testimony showed Gray's bad record. He was dis- charged from the Soldiers’ Home for fight- ing. Ex-Skerift ~John Ray testified strongly to Gray's quarrelsome disposi- tion. The jury exonerated Bacher. DON MIGUEL CORREA Y GARCIA, the Spanish Minister of War. 1 10 BE APPRAISER | The Politician’s Name Sent to the | President, and his nomination has been should not be delegated to individuals WASHINGTON, April 7.—The repre- sentatives of the six great powers of Europe—Great Britain, France, Ger- many, Russia, Austria and Italy—gave official form at noon to-day to their recent conference in the interest of a peaceful settlement of the Cuban situ- ation. Their procedure was unique in the United States, though doubtless a or corporations, wnd express continued confidence in W. J. Bryan. A resolution of sympathy for Cuban | patriots and in favor of immediate in- tervention by the United States was | also adopted. William J. Bryan spoke at the afternoon session. An audience of between 5000 and 6000 people greeted William J. Bryan at | Tomlinson Hall to-night. was tendered an ovation. He spoke for an hour and a half, mainly on the cur rency question. He touched upon Cuban question casually. He said that his life had all been spent since the war and that he had always heard it in- sinuated that the Democrats were not as patriotic as they should be. He was | sure that the patriotism of Democrats | had been demonstrated in the Cuban situation. He commended the course | of Consul-General Lee in the higaest terms. ‘“While we are talking aboul freeing Cuba.” said he, “let us not for- get that we have a work to do in free- | ing America.” This afternoon Chairman Towne of the National Silver Republican Com- mittee spoke, arraigning the Indianap- olis 'sound monev movement. At 5 o'clock Mr. Bryan and other prominent visitors were given a recep- | tion by the Commercial Club and Board | of Trade, when Mr. Bryan, Chairman Towne and George Fred Williams spoke | to the business men. Mt Williams said that the invitation to speak be- fore a commercial club was one that would not be extended to him in New England, owing to his beliefs on the money question. { OF MERCHANDISE Jacob Shaen Has Been Nom- inated to the Position by McKinley. United S'ates Senate for Approval. The appointment of Jacob Shaen, the well known local politiclan, to the posi- tion of Assistant Appraiser of Merchan- dise in this city has been indorsed by the referred to the Senate for confirmation. Mr. Shaen held the same position un- der the Harrison administration, having been nm\ointed at the time through the friendship of Senator Stanford. The position is an important one, and the duties demand a tnorough kuowlacge of the varjous imports that arrive in this city from foreign ports. ‘Lhe salary is| $2500 a year, and is considered a good remuneration for the work. . Jt is expected that Shaen's nomination will meet with approval in the Sanate, and that he will be able to commence the gmles of his new office within a few ays. —_———— FRUIT SOLD TO AID THE STARVING CUBANS. Prominent Dealers Bid for the Car- load Donated by the Riverside Chamber of Commerce. NEW YORK, April 7.—Fruit dealers from all parts of the city assembled in the auction rooms on Erie Railway pier this afternoon and paid $702 for a car- load of California oranges and lemons, for which, under ordinary circum- stances, E. L. Goodsell, the auctioneer, would have been well satisfied to get half the money. Among the men who took part were big wholesalers and men who have little retail stands at the street corners. A large American flag hung behind the desk, and to it | were attached two smaller Cuban flags. James Clarence Harvey read an orig- inal poem _entitled ‘“‘America, the Friend of Her Enemy,” the closing stanza of which said: So make your bids and show the world when Cuba's flag is free, We've fed Spain's poor relations ere we swept her from the sea. E. Andrews bought the first box, pay- ing $16, and immediately gave it back, | to be sold over again, and Flake & Co. gave $20 for a box, the highest paid, though one box, on being resold a num- ber of times, netted $65, and another $50. J. H. Killough & Co. paid $13 for a box, and G. Allison & Co. and Westfall Bros. & Co. bought boxes at $10 apiece. P. J. Kelly bought a choice box and immediately shipped it as a gift to Sen- ator Hanna. There were 223 boxes in all in the carload, which was donated by the Riverside Chamber of Com- merce of Riverside, Cal. THE OREGON SAILS DOWN THE COAST. Copyrighted, 1898, by James Gordon Bennett. LIMA, Peru. April 7.—The United States 'battle-ship Oregon sailed from Callao to-day after having coaled and taken on provisions. She has not yet been painted the war color. VALPARAISO, Chile, April 7.—The United States gunboat Marietta arrived at this port at balf-past 9 this morn- ing. She reports all well. ol Gl Donation of Brokers. CHICAGO, April 7.—The Chicago Brokers' Associjation at a meeting to-. day adopted a resolution to contribute $1000 for the benefit of the Chicago | familiar one in European courts. They | called in a body at the White House, presented an address to President Mc- Kinley in the blue parlor, received the reply and then proceeded to the State Department, where with solemn punc- tiliousness they were received by As- sistant Secretary Day in the diplomatic Mr. (Bryan |room. They were accompanied by their | secretaries. The ceremony was impres- | sive. The Embassadors and Ministers had agreed upon a line of action at a meet- ing at the British Embassy Tuesday | afternoon. Early there was evidence of great activity at the foreign estab- lishments, and while the customary se- crecy was observed, yet no further ef- | fort was made to question or deny the | fact that the Embassadors had agreed |on a concrete form of action. The ad- ditional fact was made known for the first time that Sir Julian Pauncefote had communicated with the State De- | partment authorities last evening on | this subject, and while the full form of | the movement might not then have been made known, the United States authorities were made aware of what | was being done and of the further fact | that an official presentation of the sub- i ject would be made at noon to-day. This Government was undoubtedly | made acquainted with the address to | be delivered and then, in the light of | it, prepared its reply. The fact de- veloped this morning that Russia had joined the other five powers, Mr. de Wollant, Charge a’Affaires, pending the arrival of the new Russian Embassa- dor, Count Cassini, acting for the Czar. The diplomatic officials. met at the British embassy shortly before noon and then proceeded with their secre- taries to the White House and State Department. The party was made up of the following: The British Embas- sador, Sir Julian Pauncefote, dean of the diplomatic corps; the French Em- bassador, M. Cambon, and M. Thie- bant, first secretary of cmbassy; the German Embassador, Dr. von Holle- ben, with Baron Spreck von Steinburg, first secretary of embassy; the Aus- trian Minister, Mr. Hegenmuller; the Italian Charge d'Affaires, Count Vinci, and the Russlan Charge d’Affaires, Mr. de Wollant. Arriving at the White House they were ushered into the blue room and there were received by President Mc- Kinley. After a social exchange and mutual well-wishes the Embassadors, Ministers and Charges, speaking through Sir Julian Pauncefote, deliv- ered to ti.e President the following ad- dress: Mr. President: We have been com- manded by the great powers of BEurope whom we represent here to-day to ap- proach your Excellency with a messaze of friendship and peace at the present critical juncture in the relations between the United States and Spain and to con- vey to vou the sentiments expressed in the collective note, which I have the honor to place in your hands. The note of the powers is as follows: The undersigned, representatives of Germany, Austria - Hungary, France, Great Britain, Italy and Russia, duly authorized in that behalf, address in the name of their respective Governments a pressing appeal to the feelings of hu- manity and moderation of the President and of the American people in thelr exist- ing differences with Spain. They ear- nestly hope that further negotiations will lead to an agreement which, while secur. ing the maintenance of peace, will afford all necessary guarantees for the re-estab- lishment of order in Cuba. The powers do not doubt that the hu- manitarian and purely disinterested char. acter of this representation will be fully recognized and appreciated by the Amer- ican nation. President McKinley replied as fol- lows: The Government of the United States recognizes the good will which has prompted the friendly communication of the representatives of Germany, Austria- Hungary, France, Great Britaln, Italy and Russia, as set forth in the address of your excellencies, and shares the hope therein expressed that the outcome of the situation in Cuba may be the mainten- ance of peace botween the United States and Spain, affording the necessary guar- antees for the re-establishment of order in the island, so terminating the chronic condition of disturbance there which so deeply injures the interests and menaces the tranquillity of the American nation by the character and consequences of the struggle thus kept up atourdoors, besides shocking its sentiments of humanity. The Government of the United States appreciates the humanitarian and disin- terested character of the communication now made on behalf of tif® powers named, and for its part is confident that equal appreciation will be shown for its own earnest and unselfish endeavors to fulfill a duty to humanity by ending a situation the indefinite prolongation of which has become Insufferable. The party then withdrew to the State Department and repaired in a body to the diplomatic room, where they held a conference with Judge Day, Assist- ant Secretary of State, Secretary Sher- man having gone home to lunch before their arrival. This conference took a wider range and went considerably outside of the address delivered to the President ‘While the diplomats were at first re- ceived together, they soon separated into groups, with the apparent purpose of presenting the views of their several Governments. The British Embassa- dor, the Austrian Minister and the Ital- ian Charge were the first to retire, coming away together. The Russian Charge was the next to leave. The German Embassador and his secretary then had a private conference with Judge Day. At its conclusion the French Embassador and his secretary in turn had a conference with Judge Day. These conferences ilasted for about half an hour, the several diplo- ships crew of the naval feserve, matists leaving separately. Shortly afterward Judge Day left the EUROPE’S FORMAL PROTEST Representatives of the Six Powers Call on the President. Nobody Believes the Step Will " Have Any Effect on the Crisis One Way or the Other. State Department, declining to say more than to refer inquirers to the Em- | bassadors and the reply of the Presi- dent. g The action of the powers in present- ing the joint note to President McKin- ley was to but was deferred by delay at St.Peters- burg. . It was not until § o’clock yester- day afternoon that the Russian Gov- ernment cabled its Charge instructions similar to thcse already given to the other representatives. At 7 o’clock last night a meeting was held and the joint note formally signed, it having been prepared at the meeting at the British embassy the night before. The note is in French and bears the signature of the representatives of the six power: The original note in French was pre- sented, and Sir Julian Pauncefote stated to the President that it was given to him in this language with the signatures, as French is the diplomatic language of the world. An English translation not bearing the signatures accompanied the original note, and it was this English translation which Sir Julian Pauncefote read. The Presi- dent’'s answer was not reduced to French. An inquiry at the several embassies and legations show that the reply of President McKinley has created a most favorable impression among the Em- bassadors and Ministers. It was cabled immediately to London, Paris and all the other European capitals. The declaration of the President that, in the interest of humanity, this warfare must stop, and his indirect appeal to them to exert their influence in the name of humanity found a sympathetic reflec- tion in the sentiments of all the E: bassadors and other representatives. THEY MUST RECRUIT __THE DIVISIONS. Outside Detachments of the Naval Reserves Receive Orders to Go on a War Footing SANTA CRUZ, April 7.—Lieutenant Lindsay, commander of the fourth gun division of the naval reserves, received a telegram this afternoon from Lieu- tenant Nerney of San Francisco, giving orders to recruit his company to the full limit. The company at present numbers about fifty-five, the full limit being 100. A notice has been sent out by Lieutenant Lindsay for recruits to apply at the office of the District At- torney between the hours of 10 and 11:30 . m. and 2 and 4 p. m. EUREKA, April 7.—Lieutenant C. V. Otto, commanding the fifth division of the Naval Battalion, N. G. C., to-day received orders from headquarters at San Francisco, ordering him to recruit the division to the maximum strength immediately. The present strength of the division is sixty-two, and it will re- quire thirty-eight more men. S g e TWO CRUISERS NOT BOUND FOR CUBA. The Authorities at Washington Reti- cent About Destination of Mar- blehead and Montgomery. NEW YORK, April 7.—The Washing- ton correspondent of the Hcrald sends the following: It was reported to-night that the cruisers Montgomery and Marblehead had been ordered to Cuba to assist in the work of removing Americans, but this was denied, j* be- ing said that the vessels are not bound for Cuba. 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